Book Suggestions for New Believers in High School?

Christian atheist, Honors reward, Tale of Three Kings, Crazy love those are really good ones to start with defiantly

Dude! For sure those books are amazing! Honors reward will form a honor based culture in their lives that will equipped them to live mightily and set them into a position to receive from God in a crazy way!

Oh and Crazy Love for sure would be a great for their growth, it really covers the topic of God's love real well.

hudechek said:

Crazy love

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Love that book, another one similar to that that I really like is Ragamuffin Gospel, Signature of Jesus is good too.

callmeMurph said:

Love that book, another one similar to that that I really like is Ragamuffin Gospel, Signature of Jesus is good too.

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if you liked crazy love chan has a new book out called forgotten god i read the first part of that it seems really good.

Blue Like Jazz, The Purpose Driven Life, and Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity are some good ones.

Nothing like a good Bible study for them to get together for. The Life Change series is good for diving into a book of the Bible at a time. Though it does have homework.

"Mere Christianity" is both informative to someone who doesn't know about the faith and challenging to someone who does. If they're big time readers, I would recommend it. If they're not, they could find it a bit dry.

"The Way of the Pilgrim". Old Russian book written by an anonymous author, but can be found by various translators.

I think that God, Actually by Roy Williams is a really good book. I read it last year when I was still in high school. It approaches God and Jesus from a scientific perspective and gives strong arguments for God's existence.

"The Screwtape Letters" C. S. Lewis

^ Ironically, the work of C.S. Lewis is actually one of the first things which inspired me to abandon Christianity. I was at Seminary, listened to "The Chronicles of Narnia" on tape, and I started thinking about how cool his fiction work was. It was my first step toward broadening my perspective and learning to think more independently/secularly.

C.S. Lewis and Philip Yancey have both good books... Of which some are mentioned in this thread. I also liked this book by Billy Graham called The Journey (I think his other works would be roughly as interesting and valuable - haven't read any though), and the plus side of it was definitely that it was really easy to approach even as a young christian.

Lee Strobel, "the case of Christ"

Was Jesus real? was he the man who he said he was? It's really Good book

I must add: 'More than a carpenter' (Josh McDowell)
This is very thin book, but it's awesome. I recommend it

Joshua Howard said:

^ Ironically, the work of C.S. Lewis is actually one of the first things which inspired me to abandon Christianity. I was at Seminary, listened to "The Chronicles of Narnia" on tape, and I started thinking about how cool his fiction work was. It was my first step toward broadening my perspective and learning to think more independently/secularly.

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You are a deist?!? I never thought I'd see the day. Congratulations on your intellectual journey!

Letters to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris is one I would love for people to read.

I love the book He choose the nail by max lucado, it really helped me to understand jesus' sacrifice even more

>.> Cross and the Switchblade...but you should definitely read it first and decide for yourself. But the book did amazing things for me when I first started out as a new Christian.

I read some Thomas Aquinas at that age it influenced my thinking a lot. C.S. Lewis has a lot of good stuff. I mean a lot would depend on exactly what they're looking for. Thomas Aquinas is pretty heavy on the hardcore reader side (difficult to read, complex concepts, translated from archaic language, many translations also use archaic language) C.S. Lewis is a little easier reading, mostly because he's more current and therefore his language is more accessible. Thomas Aquinas 5 Arguments for the existence of God is actually what brought me back to Christianity in college. I can't for the life of me remember where they actually were written though, I think I read them in a separate collection of essays and short works. There's a wealth of good material out there, but before I could make an informed suggestion I'd need to know more what you're looking for, or what they're looking for rather.

One book that helped me was The High School Survival Guide by Adam Palmer